Author: John Swain
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 024467809X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
John Swain's gritty novel SMITHY IS..., is not only brutally insightful and hard hitting, but also crucial to the issues that young people have faced and continue to face. Set in the northern town of Leeds, we see a young boy progressing to adulthood, who experiences and is privy to several disturbing issues such as: mental abuse, sexual abuse, bullying, racism and an overall tumultuous number of years growing up. What is especially appealing is the narrative in which it is written that will almost certainly appeal to a younger audience. It will completely resonate with the teenager of today! A must read for both young people and any professional carer or educator of today.
Smithy Is...
Author: John Swain
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 024467809X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
John Swain's gritty novel SMITHY IS..., is not only brutally insightful and hard hitting, but also crucial to the issues that young people have faced and continue to face. Set in the northern town of Leeds, we see a young boy progressing to adulthood, who experiences and is privy to several disturbing issues such as: mental abuse, sexual abuse, bullying, racism and an overall tumultuous number of years growing up. What is especially appealing is the narrative in which it is written that will almost certainly appeal to a younger audience. It will completely resonate with the teenager of today! A must read for both young people and any professional carer or educator of today.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 024467809X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
John Swain's gritty novel SMITHY IS..., is not only brutally insightful and hard hitting, but also crucial to the issues that young people have faced and continue to face. Set in the northern town of Leeds, we see a young boy progressing to adulthood, who experiences and is privy to several disturbing issues such as: mental abuse, sexual abuse, bullying, racism and an overall tumultuous number of years growing up. What is especially appealing is the narrative in which it is written that will almost certainly appeal to a younger audience. It will completely resonate with the teenager of today! A must read for both young people and any professional carer or educator of today.
Smithy
Author: Amanda Desiree
Publisher: Inkshares
ISBN: 1950301222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"This original haunted house tale, with a unique plot and compellingly vivid characters, moves from uneasy to creepy to all-out 'keep the lights on' terror." —Library Journal, starred review. In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man’s closest relative―the primate. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. But as the summer deepens and the history of the mansion manifests, the messages signed by their research subject become increasing spectral. Nearly twenty-five years after the Smithy Project ended in tragedy at Trevor Hall, questions remain: Was Smithy a hoax? A clever mimic? A Rorschach projection of humanity’s greatest hopes and fears? Or was he indeed what devotees of metaphysics have claimed for so long: a link between our world and the next?
Publisher: Inkshares
ISBN: 1950301222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"This original haunted house tale, with a unique plot and compellingly vivid characters, moves from uneasy to creepy to all-out 'keep the lights on' terror." —Library Journal, starred review. In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man’s closest relative―the primate. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. But as the summer deepens and the history of the mansion manifests, the messages signed by their research subject become increasing spectral. Nearly twenty-five years after the Smithy Project ended in tragedy at Trevor Hall, questions remain: Was Smithy a hoax? A clever mimic? A Rorschach projection of humanity’s greatest hopes and fears? Or was he indeed what devotees of metaphysics have claimed for so long: a link between our world and the next?
War and Words
Author: Sara Munson Deats
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as it represents it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as it represents it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization.
Stan Without Ollie
Author: Ted Okuda
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786447818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Long before his momentous teaming with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel (1890-1965) was a motion picture star in his own right. From his film debut in Nuts in May (1917) through his final solo starring effort Should Tall Men Marry? (1928), Laurel headlined dozens of short comedies for a variety of producers and production companies, often playing characters far removed from the meek, dimwitted "Stanley" persona that we know and love. This is a film-by-film look at the pictures Stan made as a solo artist, as well as those he wrote and directed for other stars, shows his development as a movie comedian and filmmaker. Comedy legend Jerry Lewis, a longtime friend and admirer of Stan Laurel, provides an affectionate and eloquent foreword. Included are several rare photographs and production stills.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786447818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Long before his momentous teaming with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel (1890-1965) was a motion picture star in his own right. From his film debut in Nuts in May (1917) through his final solo starring effort Should Tall Men Marry? (1928), Laurel headlined dozens of short comedies for a variety of producers and production companies, often playing characters far removed from the meek, dimwitted "Stanley" persona that we know and love. This is a film-by-film look at the pictures Stan made as a solo artist, as well as those he wrote and directed for other stars, shows his development as a movie comedian and filmmaker. Comedy legend Jerry Lewis, a longtime friend and admirer of Stan Laurel, provides an affectionate and eloquent foreword. Included are several rare photographs and production stills.
Sarina's Smith
Author: Bob Hambleton
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1911596217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The ';Sarina' saga continues with a story of young love amid a community ravaged by terrifying oppression.Jaxaal Norland's best friend Rydall hopes to be accepted as an apprentice smith.Arriving at the Cordale Complex, Rydall nds love but discovers a community oppressed by a terrifying band of renegades.Resolving to correct the injustices, he enlists the help of the complex's apprentices.ThThey succeed in changing the situation - for the worse. Then Jaxaal, Sarina and a group of trainee Guardians arrive and a solution to the problem is attempted.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1911596217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The ';Sarina' saga continues with a story of young love amid a community ravaged by terrifying oppression.Jaxaal Norland's best friend Rydall hopes to be accepted as an apprentice smith.Arriving at the Cordale Complex, Rydall nds love but discovers a community oppressed by a terrifying band of renegades.Resolving to correct the injustices, he enlists the help of the complex's apprentices.ThThey succeed in changing the situation - for the worse. Then Jaxaal, Sarina and a group of trainee Guardians arrive and a solution to the problem is attempted.
The Post-Apocalyptic Blacksmith
Author: Dale A. Raby
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468945963
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This book is an introduction to blacksmithing with an emphasis on how I envision it to be practiced in the event of an apocalyptic event. It contains references to other works, useful information about junkyard steels, description of techniques used in iron working, charcoal-making, other kinds of metalworking and a chapter on the selection of weapons in addition to other information that might prove useful in the event of a wide-spread disaster scenario.
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468945963
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This book is an introduction to blacksmithing with an emphasis on how I envision it to be practiced in the event of an apocalyptic event. It contains references to other works, useful information about junkyard steels, description of techniques used in iron working, charcoal-making, other kinds of metalworking and a chapter on the selection of weapons in addition to other information that might prove useful in the event of a wide-spread disaster scenario.
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self.In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They illuminate a basic human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging. Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity.These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day. Few of us actually put on masks that replicate our faces, but it is not uncommon for us to become travesties of ourselves, particularly as we age and change. We often slip carelessly across the permeable boundary between the un-self-conscious self-indulgence of our most idiosyncratic mannerisms and the conscious attempt to give the people who know us, personally or publicly, the version of ourselves that they expect. Myths of self-imitation open up for us the possibility of multiple selves and the infinite regress of self-discovery.Drawing on a dizzying array of tales-some fact, some fiction-The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was is a fascinating and learned trip through centuries of culture, guided by a scholar of incomparable wit and erudition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self.In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They illuminate a basic human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging. Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity.These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day. Few of us actually put on masks that replicate our faces, but it is not uncommon for us to become travesties of ourselves, particularly as we age and change. We often slip carelessly across the permeable boundary between the un-self-conscious self-indulgence of our most idiosyncratic mannerisms and the conscious attempt to give the people who know us, personally or publicly, the version of ourselves that they expect. Myths of self-imitation open up for us the possibility of multiple selves and the infinite regress of self-discovery.Drawing on a dizzying array of tales-some fact, some fiction-The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was is a fascinating and learned trip through centuries of culture, guided by a scholar of incomparable wit and erudition.
American Blacksmith, Auto & Tractor Shop
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Category : Blacksmithing
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
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Category : Blacksmithing
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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American Blacksmith, Auto and Tractor Shop
Author:
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Category : Blacksmithing
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacksmithing
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
Author: Drew Beisswenger
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia